UK designer Kyle Bean, who previously made waves with his laptop/book sculpture The Future of Books, makes all kinds of awesome stuff. These delicate matchstick insects are just the latest page in his impressive online portfolio — via MAKE]
After much deliberation, it was decided to remove an existing, inefficient structure and replace it with a new one. The new house occupies one third less area than the original structure and is sited to maximize green area on the property. Designed by Robert Gurney Architect as a cube, the new house is approximately 2,200 square feet with no unused or underutilized spaces. The flat roof provides an additional 1,100 square feet of outdoor living space with views of treetops and the downtown Bethesda skyline — via ArchDaily
Man-eating giant squid? Nah, he’s just a big Cuddle-fish! — via Etsy
As in many of the civic and public buildings designed by Richard Meier & Partners Architects, The Atheneum built in New Harmony, Indiana plays a key role in its community — via ArchDaily
Sara of Creative Jewish Mom recently shared a tutorial for making these cute crochet covered buttons that add an extra special touch to a crochet project. She also shares her brilliant idea for creating a care card and mending yarn to add to your crochet gift so your recipient knows how to wash it — via CRAFT
The most loveable pair of mittens you’ll ever knit and wear — via Morehouse Farm Merino
Accidentally hit that delete button? Having a hard drive failure? Help is here. Let us take you through the steps to get that data back in your hands — via Gizmodo
Phoenix, Arizona has a burgeoning Biotechnology industry and in order to help fill the demand for skilled employees the Paradise Valley Community College plans to double its Biotechnology Program. The new Life Science Building, designed by Marlene Imirzian & Associates, provides new instructional space, housing the college’s Anatomy, Physiology, General Biology, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Marine Biology and Environmental Biology Programs — via ArchDaily
There’s hardly a more prominent financial product in America today than the almighty credit card. Nearly everybody has at least one — almost 80% of consumers in 2008, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston – and many use it on a daily basis. Without a doubt, there are also those consumers who know their credit card numbers by heart (makes online shopping and booking travel so much easier, if anything). But how many of you know what those numbers really mean? Contrary to what you may think, they aren’t random. Those 16 digits are there for a reason and, knowing a few simple rules, you could actually learn a lot about a credit card just from its number. This infographic shows you how to crack that code — via MintLife Blog
Australian scientists have found a way to capture the image of the tiny malaria parasite as it invades a human red blood cell — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Motorbikes could soon be sporting collision detection and other safety features more usually found on cars — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US investigators have been unable to find evidence directly linking WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, the army private suspected of passing on confidential documents to the whistleblowing website, according to a report last night — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A polar bear swam continuously for over nine days, covering 687km (426 miles), a new study has revealed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Breezeway House features an iconic butterfly roof above a center breeze space
. The breezeway — perfect for a location like California — opens the interior to natural light, fresh air, and an indoor/outdoor living experience like none other — via Jetson Green
Hopefully we’ll all in agreement that you should have a presence on Facebook – it’s the most popular social network in Australia, and is the second most visited website in Australia (behind Google.com.au).
Buyers and sellers of property are on Facebook – they’re discussing and researching property, and you should be there too — via rpdata.com
Network demand will explode, fueled by unexpected growth in ambient video, like puppy cams and surveillance video, according to reports from the 33rd Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) conference held last week in Hawaii — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Another blow has been delivered to the mass BitTorrent lawsuits that were introduced in the United States last year. The German-based copyright profiteers DigiProtect sued hundreds of alleged BitTorrent users a month ago, but now more than half of the cases have been orally dismissed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you haven’t seen the announcements, the big news is that BBC Online is having to cut its budget by 25% and is being reorganised. Part of this reorganisation will see the BBC moving away from stand alone communities and message boards. Last year some message boards were closed, more will close this year. The BBC’s other big community 606 is scheduled for closure. (You can read about why we’re moving in this direction on this blog post from Ian Hunter.)
The review is part of the BBC’s Putting Quality First strategy which you can read about here. BBC Online will be reorganised into five portfolios of “products”. All parts of BBC Online have to fit with these. Over the past year all areas of the site have been reviewed to see where, and if, they fit. Sadly the conclusion myself and my colleagues have come to is that H2G2 does not fit in the new shape of BBC Online — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A single universal
memory technology that combines the speed of DRAM with the non-volatility and density of flash memory was recently invented at North Carolina State University, according to researchers.
The new memory technology, which uses a double floating-gate field-effect-transistor (FET), should enable computers to power down memories not currently being accessed, drastically cutting the energy consumed by computers of all types, from mobile and desktop computers to server farms and data centers, the researchers say — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is pressing the Federal Government to give it enough power to prevent price signalling by banks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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